Audience Research - BBFC website 2014 guidelines

• No sexual content or nudity must be shown in a 12a rated film.
• There is allowed to be slight amounts of violence but it must not show any form of them in any great detail, only depending on the situation is there allowed to be hints of gory moments but with no sign of blood or injury.
• Drugs may be shown but no detail must be given to them with no indication of any form of use.
• Agressive discrimination is very likely to not be tolerated however it may be used at a very toned down level.  An example of a 12a film would be Mockingjay ( Lawrence, 2014)

• For 15 rated film there is a limit on the amount of nudity and sexuality in the film with tight guidelines on how much detail they may go into.
• They are allowed to reinforce the idea of violence and may be strongly represented but there must be no pain or injury within the violence.
• Drugs may be used however they must be used without highlighting any specific methods of using them & without the use of the right or wrong views on them.An example of this would be Psycho ( Hitchcock, 1960)

• If the film is a age rating of 18 then you can expect there to be scenes of a sexual nature which tries to inform the viewer with use of some explicit pictures.
• The violence in a 18 rated film also takes a step up, there will be scenes in the film where there are high amounts of blood and injury.
• Drugs may be also shown freely with detail and concentration been shown.An example of a 18 rated film would be Paranormal activity 4 ( schulman, 2012).

For the thriller opening that we are going to be making it is important that we know what we can and cant do when filming, our age rage will be 15+ as the years below is hard to convey a good thriller with limitations.